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1. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

   By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 2

   Integrated Approaches

   By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. In this...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Social Fairness and Economics

   Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley

   Edited by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Thomas Michl

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Structural Economics

   By Thijs ten Raa

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book aims to make the nature of input-output analysis in economics clearly accessible and, contrary to the opinion of many commentators, shows that this type of analysis can be compatible with the doctrines of neoclassical economics....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism

   Essays Inspired by Karl William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs

   By Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The Social Costs approach to the globalised capitalist market economy has gained new relevance in recent years. The present situation is one of widespread and increasing deterioration of the social, cultural, democratic, and environmental frameworks of advanced capitalist market societies. This...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Clinton and Blair

   The Political Economy of the Third Way

   By Flavio Romano

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a ‘Third Way’. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade

   History, Theory and Empirical Evidence

   By Anwar Shaikh

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global poverty, its protocols are derived from the orthodox theory of competitive free markets and its policies are enforced by the full weight of the rich countries...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Modern Applications of Austrian Thought

   Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, the purpose of this book is to show that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics. Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus, this...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Uncertainty in Economic Theory

    Edited by Itzhak Gilboa

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This volume brings together important papers, coupled with new introductions, in the massively influential area of uncertainty in economic theory. Seminal papers are available together for the first time in book format, with new introductions and under the steely editorship of Itzhak Gilboa - this...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge